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December 8, 1977 • Volume 24, Number 20

  • Nigel Dennis

    Fabricated Man e-edition

    The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh edited by Michael Davie

  • J.M. Cameron

    Morality and War e-edition

    Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations by Michael Walzer

  • Alexander Cockburn

    Gastro-Porn

    Simple French Food by Richard Olney

    Mediterranean Cooking by Paula Wolfert

    The Carter Family Favorites Cookbook by Ceil Dyer

    Feast Without Fuss by Lady Pamela Harlech

    Irish Countryhouse Cooking compiled by Rosie Tinne

    The Cookery of England by Elisabeth Ayrton

    The Taste of America by John Hess, by Karen Hess

    Paul Bocuse’s French Cooking by Paul Bocuse

    Revolutionizing French Cooking by Roy Andries de Groot

    Cuisine Minceur by Michel Guérard

    Dietary Goals for the United States Needs, United States Senate prepared by the Staff of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human

    Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives edited by K.C. Chang

    The New French Cooking: Minceur Cuisine Extraordinaire by Armand Aulicino

  • Renata Adler

    Reflections on Political Scandal e-edition

    Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America by Edward Jay Epstein

  • Roger Sale

    Hurled into Vietnam e-edition

    Dispatches by Michael Herr

  • Jean-Marie Domenach,
    Peter France

    Malraux and Death e-edition

    Lazarus by André Malraux, translated by Terence Kilmartin

  • Mark Crispin Miller

    The King e-edition

    The Private Elvis by May Mann

    My Life With Elvis: The Fond Memories of a Fan Who Became Elvis’s Private Secretary by Becky Yancey, by Cliff Linedecker

    Elvis: A Biography by Jerry Hopkins

    Elvis: What Happened? by Red West, by Sonny West, by Dave Hebler, as told to Steve Dunleavy

  • Christopher Hill

    Top People e-edition

    Charles V: Elected Emperor and Hereditary Ruler by Manuel Fernández Alvarez, translated by J.A. Lalaguna

    Philip II of Spain by Peter Pierson

    The Young Mazarin by Georges Dethan, translated by Stanley Baron

    The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry by Roy Strong

  • Denis Donoghue

    Only Disconnect e-edition

    Daniel Martin by John Fowles

    The Sun and the Moon by Niccolò Tucci

  • Michael Wood

    Molière in New York e-edition

    Tartuffe by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur, directed by Stephen Porter

    The Misanthrope by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur, directed by Bill Gile

    The Learned Ladies by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur

  • John Hollander

    Talkies e-edition

    Speaking Pictures edited by Milton Klonsky

    The Renaissance Imagination: Essays and Lectures by D.J. Gordon, edited by Stephen Orgel

LETTERS

Contributors

Renata Adler was born in Milan and raised in Connecticut. She received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr, an M.A. from Harvard, a D.d’E.S. from the Sorbonne, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an LL.D. (honorary) from Georgetown. Adler became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1963 and, except for a year as the chief film critic of The New York Times, remained at The New Yorker for the next four decades. Her books include A Year in the Dark (1969); Toward a Radical Middle (1970); Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al., Sharon v. Time (1986); Canaries in the Mineshaft (2001); Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker (1999); Irreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and The Decision That Made George W. Bush President (2004); and the novels Speedboat (1976; winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel) and Pitch Dark (1983).

Peter France is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Edinburgh, the author of Politeness and Its Discontents, and the editor of The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. (June 2005)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at New York University, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. His works include The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and The American Classics.

Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was a science writer and novelist. He was the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, The Night is Large and Visitors from Oz.

Christopher Hill (1912–2003) was an English historian. Educated at Oxford, Hill taught at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire as well as Oxford, where he was elected Master of Balliol College. His books include Puritanism and Revolution,Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, and The World Turned Upside Down.

John Hollander is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale.

Roger Sale is a critic and journalist. Until 1999, he was Professor of English at the University of Washington. His books include Modern Heroism: Essays on D. H. Lawrence, William Empson and J.R.R. Tolkien and On Not Being Good Enough: Writings of a Working Critic.

Michael Wood is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His books include Literature and the Taste of Knowledge and Yeats and Violence

Alexander Cockburn edits the newsletter CounterPunch and writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.

Nigel Dennis (1912–1989) was an English writer, critic and editor. His books include Boys and Girls Come Out to Play and An Essay on Malta.